Card holder



Oct. 22, 1929. BARTHOLIC 1,732,629

CARD HOLDER Filed Nov. 9, 1926 2 Sheet-Sheet 1 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Oct. 22, 1929. E. B. BARTHOLIC CARD'HOLDER Filed Nov. 9, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet INVENTOR.

A TTORNEY.

Patented cal 22, 1929 UNITED STATES EDWARD B. BAETHOLIC, OF II-IIPPSBURG, COLORADO CARD HOLDER Application filed November 9, 1926.

nis invention relates to card holders and its principal object is to provide a device of simple construction by which had order cards or route cards may be supported on the sides of railroad freight cars without the use of nails or other similar fastening devices heretofore employed.

Another object is to provide a device of the above described character which permits of ready removal or reversal of the cards without tearing or otherwise marring the same so that the carc s may be used repeatedly and so that the position of the cards can be reversed for the purpose of displaying different legends at opposite sides thereof.

A further object of the invention is to provide a card holder of skeleton form, so constructed that the back against which the card is placed is provided by the surface of the part to which the holder is attached. Another object is to provide a holder of this kind composed in its entirety of a single strip of metal and still further objects reside in cletails of construction and a novel arrangement of parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings in the several views of which like parts are similarly designated,

Figure 1 represents a face-view of a card holder constructed in accordance with my invention, which is adapted to be fastened at the sides of freight cars and which is designed to hold both a bad order card and a route card Figure 2, is a perspective view of the single metal strip of which the holder is composed, before it is bent to the required form.

Figure 3 represents an enlarged section taken on the line 3-3 Figure 2,

Figure 4, a similar section along the line 4-4 Figure 2,

Fi ure 5, an enlarged section on the line 55 Figure 1, and

Figure 6, an enlarged section taken in the plane indicated by the line 6-6 Figure 1;

Figure 7 represents a perspective View of a strip of metal designed to form a holder of modifieo construction,

Figure 8, a prospective view drawn to an enlarged scale, of the holder made of the strip Serial No. 1 3L266.

shown in Figure 7, in connection with a base which adapts the holder for use in connection with railroad tank-cars,

Figure 9, an enlarged end view of the holder shown in Figure 8, looking in the direction of the arrow A,

Figure 10, an enlarged section taken on the line 10-1O Figure 8, and a Figure 11, a further enlarged perspective and fragmentary view of one of the corners of either of the holders depicted in Figures 1 and 8.

Referring first to Figures 1. to 6 of the drawings the card holder illustrated therein composed of two sections A and 13, each adapted to support a card. The sections consist of interconnected frames of channel section each having in its outer side a slot 5 through which the cards 6 are inserted. The slots are formed at a side of the respective channels whereby lips 7 are provided which prevent the cards from jarring out of the frames by the movement of the car to which the holder is attached.

Wires 8 stretched between opposite sides of the frames provide bars which hold the cards in place, the ends of the wires being fastened in holes 9 in the outer sides of the channelshaned frames.

The holder is fastened to a side of a railway car by nails or screws driven through apertured tabs 10 projecting outwardly from the frames and the holder may be further secured by nails driven through holes 12 in the inner sides of the channeled frames, registering with larger openings 12 in the outer sides of the same as indicated in Figure 3.

Openin s 13 in the bottom-members of the frames are for the purpose of drainage in of rain or snow.

The two frames are made of a single strip of metal 14 shown in a partially bent condition in Figure 2. The originally flat strip is bent lengthwise about a central line into Cl1fil1- nel shape as best shown in Figures 3 and d and at the points of the strip at which the corners of the frames are to be formed the sides of the channels are partially slit as shown at 15. The strip is thus divided into seven members which are integrally connect ed and which may be bent at right angles to each other by lapping their adjoining ends as illustrated in Figure 11.

The member 16 which constitutes the bottom part of the holder, is apertured to provide the drain holes 13 and all of the members are provided with openings in which the bars 8 are fastened or through which the nails are driven by means of which the holder is secured as hereinbefore described.

The members 17 forming the upright outer sides of the frame are slit to provide the entrance slots 5 and the members 18 and 16 that constitute the top and bottom of the frame have at the inner sides of their channels parallel slits to form the fastening tabs 10 by bending the portions between the slits outwardly as indicated in Figure 4. Y

The end members 19 of the strip may if so desired be secured in place by soldering or otherwise fastening them to the member 16 with which they engage when the strip is bent to form the adjoining frames of which the holder is composed.

The holder illustrated in Figures 7 to 10 differs from the other mainly in that it is composed of a single frame which is fastened upon a Wooden base 20 for its attachment to the side of a railway tank car. It will be understood, however, that the frame without the base may be used wherever a single frame is preferred to the double frame hereinbefore described.

The frame shown in Figure 8 is composed of a single strip of metal 21 bent longitudinally into channel shape and partially slit at the points at which the four corners of the frame are to be formed as illustrated in Figure 7. The four integrally connected members of the frame are bent at right angles to each other as before, one of the members 22 is slit to provide the entrance slot 23 through which in practice, the card 24 is inserted, and the members are as before, provided with apertures for the attachment of cross bars 25 between oppositeparts of the frame, and with outwardly projecting tabs 26 for fastening the frame to the base or to a side of a car as the case may be, the tabs being as in the other construction formed by bending portions of the innersides of the channels of the holder,

between parallel slits; I

In Figure 8, one of the end members27- of the frame has been shown at an obtuse angle to the ad oining member to better illus' trate the method of forming the corners when rectangular frames having a common bottom member for their rigid connection.

2. A card holder of the character described composed of a single channeled and transversely slitted strip bent to form adjoining rectangular frames having a common bot tom member for their rigid connection, the frames having slots at opposite ends for the insertion of cards.

3. The combination of a card holder comprising a frame composed of men'ibers of channel section, one of the members being vertical and having a slot ending a short distance above the bottom of the channel of an adjoining section, and a card, the inserting edge of which is less than the length of the slot adapted to be inserted through the slot without bending and drop to a position in the channel and be out of register with the openmg.

4. A card holder composed of a single channeled strip divided by transverse slits into channeled sections, said strip being bent to form adjoining rectangular frames having a common bottom member, the portions between the channeled sections being bent until ends of the sections engage the bottoms of the channels of adjacent sections.

In testimony whereof I have afllxed my signature.

EDlVARD B. BARTHOLIC. 

